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Got a quick hyperspace idea.

...Near the Kron Drift....

You are in an ugly hariball. It has gone form bad ot worse. Your routine patrol along the expanse has now turned into a fully coordinated ambush and you are starting to lose ground. There is no way you are going to be living through this. Two ships are down and you just saw another full wing jump out of lightspeed on top of you.

It is way past time to go!

Your squadron leader sets the hyperdrive and funnels the coordinates and timing to the other ship's computers in the group. You tensly watch your hud tick away the seconds till you jump praying that your shields hold just a second longer. A fire ball erupts where your wingman was. The squad leaderpulls the levers andwe are out of there!

In the movies we see squadrons all leaping together towards the battle or what have you. The ships fall out of hyperspace together, form up, and get the job done. I would love to see this as an option for the group leader of flights in space.

As the group leader you can set a hyperspace countdown and jump that will takeall members of your group with you. You will all jump at pretty much the same time, and revert about the same time, save for load speeds, of course.

The hyperspace map can have a check box for moving all of the people together. The other pilots will get a flash up of the calculation and then countdown. It will also tell them where they are going. The other pilots can also enter an /abort to stop the jump for them if they so choose.

At the same time you could add an option for say smuggler that would allow them to shave a few seconds or so off the calculation tiem, as they have been used to making tight jumps just on the edge of sanity.

Thoughts, comments?